Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.
I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.